Help with lightbox slide effect

Stacy,

The challenge is that you're asking Storyline to do 2 things when the timeline ends.  You're saying, lightbox this slide and jump to a new slide.

What's happening is, the timeline on slide one ends and it jumps to the lightbox.  Then you close the light box and jump back to slide 1 and it starts to read the triggers again and it says "light box" slide. So it lightboxes again (hence, the light box reappearing after it gets clicked off).  In the meantime, the timeline has already ended so the trigger to jump to next slide isn't executed as it's getting lost in the shuffle.

Sooo....

In order to get this to work as you'd like, here's what you do.

Add a shape off screen and have it's timeline start right after the audio and end before the end of the slide timeline.

Set your trigger to light box at the end of the object's timeline.

What this will do is light box the slide but leave a little space on the base timeline.  Once you close the light box, the base

timeline resumes and then uses trigger 2 to jump to the next slide.  

Basically, you're telling the kids to stop pushing and shoving at the end of the timeline and giving them some space to take their turns!

I've attached your file with the change.

Mike

Hi Mike and Stacy,

Tx for Q/A. Question: I created a couple scenes to play with this idea, and it works, but there's a slight flicker as SL returns to the timeline from Slide 1 and moves to Slide 2. I thought maybe yours worked differently, Mike, but I took a look and it does the same thing. It's brief, but still it's there. Is there a solution?

Rebecca,

Good question.  Closing the lightbox slide defaults back the slide it was launched from. I'll have to tinker and see if there's a way to have it auto jump to the next slide when it closes.

Mike

Hi Mike,

I was trying to figure out a solution for that too (returning to slide 1 when LB closes). My thought, which didn't work :-(

Create a variable called something like LB close and set the state to false.

Adjust the variable to true when the timeline ended for the LB slide. But I didn't see a way to do that..

In the meantime, I added a fade transition to Scene 1 Slide 2 and that makes it less stark. And in the process, I also added a transition to Scene 2 Slide 1, which is the slide that's being light-boxed. That also doesn't come in quite as starkly now.

I'm thinking maybe a more "elegant" solution would be to create a "fake lightbox", but I haven't tried that yet.

Rebecca,

I agree.  Doing the "lightbox" effect with a layer is probably the best approach to achieve the desired outcome.

Mike

Thanks so much for your help. It worked perfectly and I copied it to my other modules and it worked every time. I also couldn't figure out the flicker thing, but decided it didn't bother me enough to hold off publishing. I appreciate this community so much.